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The 3,600-year-old sarcophagus still had a mummy inside, photos show. Pink sarcophagus — weighing over 22,000 pounds — found at family burial site in Egypt Skip to main content
Over the years, King Tutankhamen’s tomb, stone sarcophagus with three nesting coffins, and mummified body have been carefully preserved, photos show. People can visit the tomb and look at the ...
The official was also "responsible for the divine offerings to all the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt", officials said. Egypt unveils 3,200-year-old sarcophagus of "royal secretary" Skip to main ...
The sarcophagus of Seti I is a life-size sarcophagus of the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh that was discovered in 1817 by the Italian explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni in tomb KV17 in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. [1] Seti I is believed to have died in 1279 BC and the sarcophagus would have housed his coffin and mummy. [2]
A sarcophagus (pl.: sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word sarcophagus comes from the Greek σάρξ sarx meaning "flesh", and φαγεῖν phagein meaning "to eat"; hence sarcophagus means "flesh-eating", from the phrase lithos ...
The Tabnit sarcophagus is the sarcophagus of the Phoenician King of Sidon Tabnit (ruled c. 549–539 BC), [1] the father of King Eshmunazar II. It is decorated with two separate and unrelated inscriptions – one in Egyptian hieroglyphs and one in the Phoenician alphabet. The latter contains a curse for those who open the tomb, promising ...
Egyptian archaeologists on Wednesday pried open a mysterious, 30-ton black sarcophagus, where they found three skeletons.
Harry Burton (13 September 1879 – 27 June 1940) was an English archaeological photographer, best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. [1] Today, he is sometimes referred to as an Egyptologist , since he worked for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for around 25 years, from 1915 until ...